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Wa (Va) is the language of the Wa people of Burma and China. There are three distinct varieties sometimes considered separate languages; their names in Ethnologue are Parauk the majority and standard form; Vo (Zhenkang Wa 40000 speakers) and Awa (100000 speakers) though all may be called Wa Awa Va Vo. David Bradley (1994) estimates there are total of 820000 Wa speakers.

family
Waic languages, Palaungic languages
spoken in
Burma, China, Thailand

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